The advent of trash fash

What, you might well ask, is this? Fashion gone loopy? Oxford Street taken over by badly dressed mannequins? No, in fact, what we have here is ‘trash fash’. Don’t worry, I hadn’t heard of it either. Apparently this is when you make outfits from the waste materials generated by shops. Good idea, but let’s hope the clothes get better than this. Until 23rd September, you can see mannequins dressed in ‘trash fash’ in London’s West End, positioned in House of Fraser, Wedgwood and Mexx (find out about it here). Be it coat hanger jewellery, plastic bag bodices, paper headdresses or skirts crocheted from wrapping tape, the designs are nothing if not imaginative.

Could this be the start of a movement to rival that of skip-diving for food. Instead of raiding Marks and Spencer’s bins for grub, we’ll be hanging out near the haberdashery department in John Lewis, hoping to scavenge a scrap of fabric or two.